Title: Sunny & Gloomy
Author: Darla - La mosca Tete
Category: AU(Alterne Universe), Romance, Shounen Ai.
Summary: Takuya works in a library, "boring" says Kouji... but Takuya will change his perception of many things...
Notes: Hahahahaha!!! (that's no evil laugh, I swear!!) Is just that I think it's so hilarious, ash wrote me a review, saying that ¿he/she??? didn't even liked this pairing but read it anyway!!! I'm so proud [starts crying]
Oh and just because I love you too much, here you'll have 3 more chapters!!
PART 8: BOO! FINAL TESTS!
KOUJI
'I can't believe that I've been for so long in this place' I thought when I had finished over three months of social service in the library. A semester of school was about to finish 'and I'm trapped in this boring place' where outside's life could only be watched in mute. That was perfect, but as you can guess, at that time I couldn't really appreciate the beauty of things like this.
As summer got closer, the library was emptying more and more, which seemed a bit illogical to me, 'Does anyone have finals?'. Our old boss spent all day outside (chasing young ladies who run in fright when they saw him) whereas me, Takuya and Jumpei had to take care of all the work (which wasn't so much) and we even had time left to do Takuya's favorite activity: reading, Jumpei's favorite activity: talk to us about Zoe (a blond girl who went to the library every day asking for help to find the same books) and my favorite activity: ignore them.
Ok! ok! Watch Takuya! happy?
Once in a while, Takuya asked me if me I didn't got bored of just being there doing nothing, I answered him that I was paying attention to what Jumpei was saying, he said "right", and I told him to shut up.
By the way, I can speak with Takuya now... What? Why are you looking at me like that? It's not big deal... ok, it is. If you want to know how that happened, read this: everything became easier right after Takuya crashed his hard head right into my delicate nose. The words left my mouth before I could stop them: "Idiot!" I called him.
and I had this feeling of deja-vú when I remembered that that's how I had called him the day we first met, I continued with "WHY DON'T YOU PAY ATTENTION? OR EVEN THINK BEFORE YOU..." blah blah blah. I remember clearly the look on Takuya's face when I had finished yelling at him, he seemed to he battling between two feeling: shame or happiness because I had talked to him.
But lets return to where I was before, a month later, with finals uncomfortably close and Takuya insisting that me just sitting there doing nothing (just watching him) was unproductive.
"Shut up and keep reading." Takuya never takes offense of my words, no matter how harsh they are, he says they're soft compared with others that have been said to him before.
"Don't you have a test or something?" he wanted to know.
"Sure, but I don't need to study to pass them."
"Really? Wait a minute do you copy on your tests or-"
"Of course not, but is not as if what they teach us is so difficult."
"Oh" he paused while he thought about something, "then why don't you read something?"
"Ugh" 'does he means what he's saying?' one look at him and I was sure that he did "Why?"
"It's fun, specially when it's not a textbook."
"Takuya, you are a special case and that's why I ignore the fact that you spend half of the time behind a book. But don't fool yourself, I hate to read as much as I dislike the crazy people that comes here all the time to do the same." Takuya looked at me with a shocked expression on his face, and then he just looked sad and his eyes where shinning more than usual 'upps' - "Takuya?"
"err... I didn't mean to say that-"
"Takuya, uh..." that's when he started laughing.
"What?" I asked a bit angry.
"You should have seen your face, you looked like you were going to cry!" he said almost crying of laughter.
"Well you too looked like you were going to cry!"
"Bu- hehe, but I was just acting."
"..." I glared at him and just then, to his luck, Jumpei showed up with a bag from the supermarket. "Want to eat something?"
"Yeah!" said Takuya and took the bag from his hands and ran in the general direction of the cubicle. Jumpei and I smiled at each other and turned to follow him.
When we got there we found him seating with a book in his legs to which he was not paying attention just to attend the chocolate bar in his hands. "And what are you reading now? More romantic poetry?" Jumpei asked and I turned to look at both of them several times, Jumpei had a big smile on his face while Takuya's had turned an interesting shade of red and avoided looking at both of us.
"No, it's nothing like that. It is math."
"Gahh! Damn finals!!" whined Jumpei and sat beside Takuya.
While they ate and complained together about school, I picked up the book that Takuya had been reading (and that he had thrown away emphasize his displeasure) and noted that indeed it was an Algebra textbook. I went trough a few pages before dully realizing that I knew and understood all of its contents and I really didn't think it was that difficult. Then I turned to see Takuya who was now telling Jumpei how he couldn't seen to be able to concentrate when he started reading textbooks especially when they were about math, physic or chemistry. I looked the book one more time 'I have an idea...'
TAKUYA
'I can't believe that time has gone so fast and another school year is over'' the second semester in school and the first working in this library (just in case you don't remember I used to work at the library that was closer to my house until they fired me).
Just one more week, final tests week, and after that I'd have all the time of the world to read the books of science fiction and novels that I had abandoned to dedicate more of time to study 'as soon as school is over I'm going to take one week of vacations' I was even thinking and could almost see it happening: waking up late and having breakfast in bed, and then I could start reading; having pizza for lunch and continue reading and eating until the sun lowered and then I could go out to take a walk, even run; buy new books and clothes; one of those days I would go to visit my family 'but I am going to leave that for the weekend so that they don't try to convince to stay with them... '
Wonderful dreams that I shouldn't be having at the moment, when the priority was to pass the exams if I didn't want to fail and then be forced to stay in school all summer. I tried again to pay attention to what I was reading – what I call the most boring book in the world- "Algebra I" making it obvious the inevitable threat of a second part of such boring subject. Luckily there were very few thing left to do at the library and there were many hands that finished the work quickly, leaving me with enough free time to study and write my final papers, like the anthology of poems and stories (that I actually enjoyed doing, but Jumpei caught me reading poems and started to say how romantic I was although I had explained him why I was doing it).
Anyway there was one thing that wasn't very clear to me. Kouji didn't seem to care about study, he never brought a notebook or a textbook to the library. Often Jumpei and I used to sit and study together but Kouji just sat there watching us or instantly disappeared. When I asked him if he didn't have a test or something he made it clear that he didn't need to study to do well at school 'great, another one with genius complex.' Then I offered him to read something else, anything just so I didn't have to look at him doing nothing, 'And there's me and my inutility complex' that's when he made a confession that made feel me sad, although I didn't let him know that his words had bothered me. 'He only thinks like that because he has never done it before' that's when I decided what was going to be my new goal with Kouji: to induce him toward the good habit of reading (that in my case has become an addiction). 'compared to what I have achieved before, this won't be so hard' I have good reasons to feel proud, you know, a month later I had accomplished my last goal – making Kouji talk to me – which one time seemed impossible, so making him read was going to be easy cake. And speaking of food...
Hehe, Jumpei brought the biggest bag from the supermarket filled with goods that don't necessarily nourish you but they are delicious. Jumpei and I dedicated to devour the bag's contents while complaining about school, Kouji choose not to eat or talk.
I remember that he was looking at me weird that time.
Ok no, he was just looking at me, there was nothing weird about that aside from the fact that this is Kouji we're talking about, Kouji who always tried to ignore us. "When do you have this test?" he asked me.
Jumpei and I became silent, we were surprised that he had asked me something - sure, he talked to me but just a little and only when we are alone (which didn't bother me, only made it more special).
I did a long pause trying to remember the date until the answer came to me "Next Thursday," and then I asked "why?"
"Kouji?"
"Just the last two chapters of the book, right?"
"Uh? err... right." I answered feeling disoriented 'where does he wants to get with those questions?'
"and what is that you don't understand?"
'Oh'
PART 9: WHO'S THE EVILDOER?
KOUJI
'The divine one is coming to my house! The divine one is coming to my house!' as you can notice I was a little bit- no, very excited. But in front of Takuya I kept acting normal, although for the rest of the world it was very obvious that I was extremely happy, just for the smile that went from ear to ear.
"You won the lottery o something?" asked Jumpei, then I tried to act more composed.
'Come on is not that great, he's just coming over to your house to study this evening...' but the moment I remembered that, my thoughts clouded and I went back to fantasyland and the idiot smile came back to my face.
When it was finally time to go I was, as expected, too nervous and too exited, in fact so much of both that I couldn't say anything coherent so I better kept my mouth shut, and dedicated only to guide the way to my house, walking. Takuya on the other hand took advantage of my silence and began to talk about his favorite books and other people's favorite books.
"I think you would like more the horror one, those that when you finishing them you have nightmares, or suspense where there are mysterious deaths and disappearances. Umm... Yeah! mystery are definitively the best ones for you to get started..." 'he's still talking about that?' but I didn't say anything so I had to listen to his rant all the way to my house and he was so focused on what he was saying (unlike me who had his words coming in from one ear and coming out from the other one) that he didn't realize when we had arrived to my place, until I opened the door and invited him in, then his talk changed from books to constant exclamations like "you call this garden? It's bigger than a park." "How many cars did you say you had?" "I could stay forever in your living room" "No, the dining room..." "I changed my mind! This kitchen is my new home" "Damn Kouji! Your room only is bigger that my whole house" all this games are yours? now I understand why you do not like to read... "
It took a lot of work to separate him from his admiration toward everything that was inside my house (which wasn't really that extraordinary, but he insisted to look at everything) and turned out to be a great distraction to his studies. Those that took more time to pull him away from was a furniture that covered a wall and was filled with books (he didn't want to stop checking which books he had read and which one he hadn't seen before) and my brother Koichi. I remember that it hardly had passed a few minutes and I was already regretting that I had introduced them.
"Takuya, this is my brother Koichi. Koichi, this is Takuya Kanbara." Takuya's eyes grew considerably and his mouth opened displaying his obvious surprise 'Hehe, now that I remember I never told him that I had a brother.'
"Nice to meet you." said Koichi.
"WOW! You're... identical." when Koichi heard that he arched an eyebrow and turned to look at me.
"You didn't say anything about bringing people over... father is going to be upset." Said my brother in a very serious tone.
"Forget it, I'll worry about it later. Besides our plans won't change because of this, I'm still going to help you with your report." I answered him trying to ignore the internal voice that was in for some troubles.
"Then what," he said pointing at Takuya with a small movement of his head " is he doing here?" intentionally avoiding to look at him directly.
"I... came to study. I have an Algebra test and Kouji offered to help me." Takuya answered him, that way he forced my brother to turn to look at him again 'I had almost forgotten that he hates being ignored'
"Really?" asked Koichi, with looking skeptic.
"Yep." answered the other one without hesitance. Obviously Takuya had realized there was something odd in that question, but he didn't let himself be intimidated.
"..." my brother turned to face me. By the look on his face I could tell he was asking something like 'Is that true?'
"..." I nodded.
"..." Takuya looked at both of us, and just shook his head.
"Before we start, Takuya, do you want to eat something?"
"Uh? no thanks, I'm still burping what I ate back at the library." Koichi looked disgusted when he heard that 'Why is he acting like that now?' I had no time to think about my brother's weird attitude, Takuya was said something more "But I can keep you company if you want!"
"No!" yelled Koichi making Takuya jump. I looked at him with even more suspicious "I think it'd be better if you come with me so that Kouji can enjoy his meal! Did you know that he likes to eat alone?"
"Uh..." Takuya turned to look at me uncertain, he was obviously asking me if it was safe to accept that suggestion.
"..." Usually I'd have left the divine in my brother's company, but there was something in Koichi's behavior that was completely different from his usual self. 'Almost as if he hated Takuya'. So my answer was a silent no. Shaking my head, doing signs with my arms (luckily Koichi didn't catch me doing it). "... sure." he said – the one who I was supposedly advising not to go- and immediately he was hauled from one arm by my brother and forced to go up stairs.
I stared after their retreat to my room, feeling very surprised and confused. Did I misinterpreted his look? Or maybe he couldn't understand what I wanted to tell him? Wasn't he asking if my brother would bite his head of its place when I turned back? Apparently no. Turned out he thought that I was rejecting his offer to keep me company.
Such an idiot! How could he think that?!
So, to be able to reunite with them, I ate almost nothing and as fast as I could (until I almost choked) then I also drank some juice, the truth is that I can't remember if it was even food what I had, the only thing that I wanted was run upstairs to my room and interrupt anything that Takuya and Koichi were doing, even if they were only studying.
Nevertheless, when I got to the door I had a better idea. So I could have a foresight of what I would find when crossing the door I decided to do a little listening before (I imagined things flying across my room, MY things flying across the room in a war until death or a less bloody duel of words, that sort of things, but) I listened to my brother's voice (which sounds a lot like mine) saying "... my brother talks a lot about you." Then I froze 'Whaaaaaat?'
"really?..." was Takuya's skeptic reply ", I'm sorry. It's not that I don't believe what you're saying, is just that he almost never speaks, so I can't imagine him talking a lot like you say..."
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And everything inside went silent as a graveyard. I opened the door and I found both of them sitting in opposed ends of my desk, one with a surprised expressions and the other with a mocking one (guess who was doing which). I glared at my brother and said "Why you haven't even started?"
"We were waiting for you, little brother." 'ugh... that attitude' he was being himself again.
"..." more glaring that only received a mocking glance from a face identical to mine.
It was one of the longest evenings of my life and to make the memory shorter, lets just say that from then on Takuya and Koichi worked very little and dedicated only to chat and laugh about things that I didn't find funny. When it was finally time for Takuya to leave, I decided to walk with him to the bus stop and this time the only thing he talked about was my brother, and how amazing it was that we looked exactly the same ("of course! We're twins" I told him, but he ignored me and only kept babbling.)
We stood there for a long time until the last bus came, it was very late and I was fearing coming back to the house with him again (not that it bothered me, but my father was expected to arrive very soon and he wouldn't like it). He kept talking at the beginning but after half an hour he had nothing left to say. The silence was uncomfortable (besides that comment I hadn't say anything else) and I thought he wouldn't notice.
"Are you mad with me?"
"Why should I be?"
"Because you offered to help me, and I spent all the evening distracting and wasting time."
"hmm... it's truth that you wasted your time, and didn't take advantage of the opportunity that you had to clarify your doubts before the test."
"Yes well... just let me tell you that your house is not something that I see everyday"
"But it wasn't of my house that you talked about for almost an hour"
"uh?"
'sigh' "Just look the bright side, you still have one day left to study."
"but you won't help me again... right?"
PART 10: THE DAWN AND THE DUSK
TAKUYA
'Identical... he has a twin brother? And he didn't say anything about it!! Aug! My poor head...' Kouji could and should have warned me about his brother! I'm still a bit resented with him because of that for as you already know, I suffer of certain trauma related to guys with blue eyes and dark hair, then it turns out that there's another one in the same family. Oh well, I'll let it slip since he doesn't know of this problem of mine. Now that I think about it, I never told him why I acted like that at the beginning, but now I don't see the point to doing so... ugh, I'm already going off from what I really wanted to say.
What I want to tell you about, it's not my visit to Kouji's house, which was most interesting and revealing (learning about his brother shocked me, but even more shocking was what Koichi told me and, hehe, I'm not telling you.) At the end of the day, I was still very ignorant towards mathematics and Kouji was mad at me, but I should have done something very good for someone without knowing and now someone who sees everything was compensating me for that. Kouji accepted to help me again the next day, but this time we agreed we were going to my house, where hopefully I wouldn't get so distracted.
And I didn't! I paid attention to everything that Kouji had to teach me. Kouji is a very good teacher, he explains everything very clearly and he's incredibly patient. But in spite of our good disposition to study, we finished with both chapters of the book very late, at night actually. He called home to say where he was and asked for someone to pick him up but whoever had answered him said no, that's why the poor guy had to stay over to sleep (and before your imagination takes you too far lets make this clear! He slept on the couch me on my bed and there was a concrete wall between us alright?, good.)
If anything extraordinary happened that would have been that that night was the first time he appeared in my dreams, although it wasn't romantic (my horrible math teacher gave me a pile of sheets and said that was my test and I had to finish in 30 minutes, Ken appeared then to do the same test and while I was solving the first problem which seemed to be written in another language, Ken said that he had already finished, I looked at the clock on the wall and I had only 5 minutes left, I realize that I wouldn't finish it on time and started to panic; there's when Kouji appears, looking as serious as always, and tells me that it was just a dream, he assures me that the test really wasn't going to be that long and I'd finish it on time.)
When I woke up the next day, I started to feel anxious again. 'but really there's nothing to worry about, I'm prepared for this test...' 'are you sure? will you remember everything?' although my nerves were making accordions with my guts, it wasn't enough to reject food and that's where I found Kouji, siting in the only chair that's in the kitchen, I said hi! to him and took out a box of instant soup (what? I'm not a great cook, so sue me). Kouji was drinking a cup of coffee, I didn't dare to ask him where he had found it because I'm sure I didn't buy it (so it probably was already in the house when I moved in) so I just smiled at him nervously and ate my soup feeling remorseful 'what if he gets sick, coffee is already disgusting and what if he...' but he noticed that I was acting odd and asked me if I was alright. "Uh? me? I feel great, wonderful! What about you? Are you hurt?" I said without thinking and he looked at me like I was crazy.
"Are you still nervous about the test?" he asked and I started to laugh.
"Me nervous? No, what makes you say that... but if we don't leave now, I'm going to be late for it... actually that's not so bad..."
As soon as we finished our breakfast, we left my house and Kouji walked to school with me (more like he dragged me) and asked me to tell our boss that he was going to be late because he wanted to go to his house and change clothes (because he was still in what he wore yesterday).
As you probably expected, I failed the stupid test. I cried like I've never done before and it wasn't until I had calmed down a little, that I understood that I wouldn't solve anything by feeling sorry and I started to study to present the same test a week later.
Ha! Tricked ya! Did you really believe that? Shows how much confidence you have in me. Well in fact I did great (someone said that I could have done better) but I was more than satisfied with just passing the stupid test and that school was finally over. Besides, I was happy because I had left Kouji with something to read. As a way of saying thanks for helping me, I decided to give him a book, but the gift didn't make him jump with joy or even smile at it "Selected Books?"
"Four in 1!" I told him.
"Oh." said Kouji without much enthusiasm.
"Come on! They're all about mystery! I guarantee that you won't get bored or I'll give your money back"
"I'm not paying for this!"
"Of course not! I was joking!!"
"I don't like your sense of humor."
"Then will you read it?"
"Ugh... I'll try, when I remember. But I don't promise you anything." and that was the end of it.
Following my schedule, I asked the next week right after school was over to have my vacations, a little time to relax, to read a bit, to sleep a lot, to visit my family and my uncle and meeting with people that I don't even want to mention. In general that week was very pleasant, but can you guess who I missed a lot? and do you know what I did on Sunday of that same week?
